A planning model for petroleum refineries



Título del documento: A planning model for petroleum refineries
Revista: Brazilian journal of chemical engineering
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000308661
ISSN: 0104-6632
Autores: 1
2
Instituciones: 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, Sao Paulo. Brasil
2Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Dic
Volumen: 17
Número: 4-7
Paginación: 575-586
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental, aplicado
Resumen en inglés The main objective of this paper is to develop a nonlinear planning model for refinery production. The model described here represents a general petroleum refinery and its framework allows the implementation of nonlinear process models as well as blending relations. This model assumes the existence of several processing units, producing a variety of intermediate streams, with different properties, that can be blended to constitute the desired kinds of products. Two real-world applications are developed, one for the planning of diesel production in the RPBC refinery in Cubatão (SP) and the other for the general production planning in the REVAP refinery in S. José dos Campos (SP). In both cases, different market scenarios were analyzed using the planning optimization and the results were compared with the current situation, in which there is no extensive use of planning decision support tools. Results revealed that there is a very large potential of profitability embedded in the planning activity, reaching several millions of dollars per year
Disciplinas: Química,
Ingeniería
Palabras clave: Ingeniería petrolera,
Ingeniería química,
Planeación de la producción,
Refinerías,
Optimización no lineal
Keyword: Chemistry,
Engineering,
Chemical engineering,
Petroleum engineering,
Production planning,
Oil refineries,
Nonlinear optimization
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